12 results for 'cat:"Civil Rights" AND cat:"Privacy"'.
J. Tigar grants class certification and puts in place a preliminary injunction in a civil rights dispute with San Francisco over the Sheriff's office's use of electronic monitoring practices for criminal defendants on pretrial release. A four-way search provision that allows an officer to search a pretrial releasee and their property upon encountering them without a warrant, as well as a data sharing rule that lets the Sheriff's office share GPS ankle monitor data with other agencies, could pose unlawful privacy risks that have not been proven to be necessary. The practices are barred from being enforced while the dispute plays out.
Court: USDC Northern District of California, Judge: Tigar, Filed On: February 13, 2024, Case #: 4:22cv5541, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, privacy, Class Action
Per curiam, the circuit finds that the district court properly dismissed privacy claims contending Dollar Tree revealed its employee had been the victim of a sex crime. The company could neither be held liable under state law, which applies only to actions taken by public officers and employees, nor under federal law, since the retailer was not a "state actor." Meanwhile, New York does not recognize a cause of action for invasion of privacy. Affirmed.
Court: 2nd Circuit, Judge: Per curiam, Filed On: December 4, 2023, Case #: 22-2997-cv, Categories: civil Rights, Employment, privacy
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J. Couriel finds that the trial court properly denied the police benevolent association a preliminary injunction to prevent the release of names of officers involved in two separate fatal shootings. Marsy's Law, which was created to protect victims, does not guarantee victims the "categorical right to withhold his or her name from disclosure." Affirmed.
Court: Florida Supreme Court, Judge: Couriel, Filed On: November 30, 2023, Case #: SC2021-0651, Categories: civil Rights, Public Record, privacy
J. Briccetti partially denies the city's motion to dismiss civil rights claims stemming from an incident where a police car crashed into a man while he was riding his motorcycle, then unlawfully searched the man's backpack while he was unconscious. The man plausibly alleges the officer invaded the man's reasonable expectation of privacy in his backpack without reasonable suspicion. However, he fails to plausibly allege a malicious prosecution claim.
Court: USDC Southern District of New York, Judge: Briccetti, Filed On: August 29, 2023, Case #: 7:22cv4450, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, privacy, Police Misconduct
Her Majesty's Court of Appeal finds a lower court properly dismissed the National Council for Civil Liberties' motion to appeal a ruling in favor of the National Union of Journalists. The Civil Liberties group argued that the journalist union wrongfully accessed certain communications involving a public authority. However, the journalists are protected by freedom of expression and are not obligated to share "bulk personal datasets" to authorities in other states. Affirmed.
Court: Her Majesty's Court of Appeal, Judge: Per curiam, Filed On: August 4, 2023, Case #: CA-2022-1019, Categories: civil Rights, privacy
J. Bivins recommends denying, in part, a company's motion to dismiss two individuals' civil rights claims related to company's vaccination requirement. They have sufficiently pleaded their claim for invasion of privacy.
Court: USDC Southern District of Alabama, Judge: Bivins, Filed On: July 10, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv328, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: civil Rights, Employment, privacy